Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that committee's traditionally crusty chairmen. In the early 1920s Campbell sported a Napoleonic curl in the middle of his forehead and had a personality to match, using the obstructive powers of the Rules Committee to block any legislation that he took a dislike to. When he saw fit, Campbell defied a majority of his own committee. If other committee members passed a resolution okaying a bill for floor action against his wishes, he would exercise a personal "pocket veto" by putting the bill in his pocket and refusing to call up the resolution on the House floor...
...comfort to the enemies of integration." The Nation deplored Bobby's conduct as counsel for the McClellan Committee: "He engaged in personal vendettas; he made it known that he was out to 'get' named individuals." But charges of nepotism were rare, and almost no one saw fit to bring up Bobby's brief service, in 1953, as an assistant counsel under Roy Cohn on the McCarthy subcommittee...
Landis calls for legislation authorizing the President to propose "reorganization plans" that would go into effect automatically unless vetoed by a resolution of both houses of Congress. He urges creation of machinery to coordinate the agencies and fit their activities into the administration-in short, to make the independent agencies less independent. The machinery, to be set up within the executive office of the President, would consist of three offices to develop national policies in the realms of transportation, communications and "energy," plus a fourth office to oversee all the regulatory agencies (but with no authority to intervene in particular...
...surmounted by a 20-story tower which, say the Russians, will be the largest hotel in Europe. It will contain 3,400 air-conditioned rooms, four lobbies, two cinemas, a concert hall, a shopping center and a 300-car garage. Structures surrounding the monster hotel will be reconstructed to fit its monolithic architecture. Buildings of "little value'' will be torn down to make a new square...
...ceramic ashtray. A somewhat older artifact - an Egyptian cosmetic palette from 3000 B.C. - was available for $280 at Manhattan's Komor Gallery. And the nearby Judith Small Gallery offered a large array of pre-Columbian sculpture, including, at $100, some Mexican fertility figures so tiny that 50 would fit in a Christmas stocking...